Commenting/ Carson's blog post

For commenting I decided to comment Carson's blogpost about the legend of Rahi and Te ara (reading). The dialogic question I asked was: Have you played the game Kia o Rahi?
I asked this question because the game is based of the book. The one thing I liked about the blog post is the way he summarised it.

Basic facts boxes

For basic facts I took the speed demon challenge with multiplication. My time was 4 minutes and 55 seconds. I  got no mistakes but I needed to be more faster.

LI: To get faster at your basic facts

SSR Selfie

For SSR Selfie I summarised the book called shocking electricity. The main topic is about electricity.
I found this book really enjoyable to read because, I learnt different facts and how important electricity is to the world. I also didn't know that a light bulb uses 6.28 billion electrons every second.

L.I-  To summarise or retell a text.

Simile

A simile is a comparison of two thing using 'like', or and 'as...as'. A simile is part of figurative language.

The like simile is used with a verb. Examples using like:

The elephant toothpaste exploded like a volcano.
Oscar swims like a dolphin.
The couple danced like fire.

The as....as is used with an adjective. Examples using as....as:

The man's muscles are as big as an elephant.
The man is as smart as Albert Einstein.
Kahu is as small as a mouse.

Similes help people compare two things in a more detailed way.

L.I- To learn what is simile.

Reading/ Story web/Legend of Rahi

For reading we had learnt about summarising.

What is a summarising? 

Summarising is where you talk about the main points/main idea of the text

I learnt how to summarise a text by doing story web by talking about the main ideas of the story.

In the events I used my visualising piece of paper from 2 weeks ago to help me remember each event that happened in the book.

I used my character inference to use adjectives and evidence to help summarise different parts. using good adjectives unlocks meaningful information, and I can summarise quicker.

Then I used some of my prior knowledge where I remembered the names like Te ara, Rahi and 
Tama-nui-te-rā from a game I've played called, Kia o Rahi. I found out this story is how the game was created . Then I use this information for my ending.#